Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (IWEN) established in 2018 as a community-based organisation by a group of indigenous women who identified the need to come together and make a change.
The organisation empowers women, widows and disabled persons to realize their full potential, worth and strength through empowerment and advocacy activities. Indigenous women and disabled persons are vulnerable to poverty, economic instability, Gender Based Violence, discrimination, or lack access to health services and land rights.
The aim of the organization is to bring forth the voices of indigenous women in decision-making. It comprises of women leaders and youth derived from the diverse indigenous communities in Ghana. This Network started by indigenous women who were marginalized and excluded from leadership positions and decision-making process at national, local and community levels.
The Network hopes to be an interface between the leadership structures and the women, youth, and persons with disability at the all levels to create awareness, build the capacity and confidence of the marginalized, thereby enhancing their political consciousness, making them self-reliant and social- economically capable.
